Misc: Negro Man Employee Horribly Mangled, Grant Parish, Louisiana
Source: The Colfax Chronicle, April 1914
Submitted to USGENWEB by:
Gaytha Thompson
540 May Drive Madison, Tn 37115
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NEGRO MAN EMPLOYEE HORRIBLY MANGLED 
April 1914

Steve Kimball, a negro oiler at the Big Pine Sawmill at Colfax, was instantly
killed and horribly mangled in the machinery of the mill about 7:30 Wednesday
morning.  

He was assisting to put a belt on a pulley and getting caught in some way he
was cut almost into mince meat in 2 seconds time.  Both arms and both legs
were cut entirely off, head severed almost from the trunk and his body cut
entirely into in the middle.

All in all the unfortunate man was one of the most terribly mutilated sights
anyone has ever seen.